What is the one quality which Muhammad Ali had but wasn’t talked about enough?
5 min readOct 11, 2023
I know this aspect of Ali does get talked about but, to me it is often understated or misrepresented. I’d like to discuss Ali’s ability to change his fight plan and make adjustments on the fly within the match. Ali truly was a genius in the ring during his best years. His ability to measure his opponents up on the fly is illustrated best during the Ali-Foreman fight in ‘74.
People love to comment on the ‘Rope-a Dope’ as Ali coined the strategy after the fight, but they often misunderstand where the…